Digital Skills Workshops
Booking is now available for our up-coming Digital Skills Workshops. If you have any questions, please just email the LDC and ask.
To attend a workshop, please book a place in advance as spaces are limited. You will receive a reminder the day before which will include the room number.
If you have booked a place, but could no longer attend, please cancel your booking using the instructions in the booking email confirmation or by emailing LDC_HLS@gcu.ac.uk as soon as possible to allow other students to book that place.
Note: If you have any additonal access needs, please email the LDC_HLS@gcu.ac.uk and let us know.
Getting the most of Microsoft 365 - Word, OneDrive, Outlook
(online session)
(online session)
Thursday 30 January 11am-12noon
OneDrive
Word tools (dictate, share document, easy formatting, proofreading tools)
Outlook - email, calendar and To Do lists
You will be using your student Microsoft 365 account to access your emails, using Word most of all for your assignments (essays, reports, etc.), as well as OneDrive to store and access your files. Knowing how to make the most of the software and tools available to you can save you time and effort and make it easier to manage your studies.
Microsoft Word for Dissertation (on campus drop-in session)
Monday 3 February 2pm-4pm
No need to book, you can just come with your questions or issues
Please watch these tailored video tutorials first
Watch the video tutorials; you will first be asked a few questions about the type of document you are creating and you will be lead to a page with a list short of video tutorials tailored to what you need.
The drop-in is available for you to ask additional questions, fix issues you may have with your document and fix any potential bugs. You do not need to book this session, come any time 2-4pm in room A304.
Drop-in
(no booking needed)
Excel for basic data analysis and data presenting (on campus session)
Thursday 13 February 2pm-4pm
Entering data
Quick calculations
Filtering and sorting and manipulating data
Presenting your data visually
Quick reporting from your data (pivot tables)
Getting to know how to enter and manipulate data in Excel is a very useful skill that helps not just with getting to know your data, but also with a basic initial analysis.
Introduction to SPSS (on campus session)
Monday 17 February 11am-1pm
Variables and values
Selecting parts of the data file (filtering)
Graphs and charts
Recoding variables
How to do frequency statistics, crosstabulation, etc.
Importing data from Excel files into SPSS and auto-coding it
Note: This session will only cover the use of SPSS to do basic data manipulation and will not cover statistics or result interpretation.
Creating effective presentations with PowerPoint (on campus session)
Tuesday 25 February 2pm-4pm
Preparing a presentation – general content and structure
Structuring your slides by using different slide layout and multilevel lists
Using graphics – images and diagrams
Slide Themes and Design ideas
Running and controlling the presentation
When required to create a presentation, PowerPoint is by far the most popular and easy to use software for that. This session will show you how to plan and create well structured and visually attractive presentations that will also enable you to present with confidence. Using PowerPoint 365, you can also create a shared PowerPoint presentation that you can work on together on a group presentation.
Academic posters Q&A (online session)
Friday 7 March 10am-11:30am
You will be sent a link to a 30min video to watch in advance of the session and you will have an opportunity to ask questions and participate in a discussion over some example posters.
Please watch the video (opens in a new tab) before the session!
Q&A and discussion session